The actors frequently get asked a question at conventions that is related to the subject of this topic: What role have you never played that you would like to play?

I thought it would be fun to do a little dreaming. So ...

What role would you like -- or would have liked, if it was something that needs a slightly younger actor -- to see Ben play and think he could carry off better than any other human male on the planet?

I'll start with Ben Hur, partly because I think he'd be great in the role (better than Charleton Heston), but also because of the amount of time he would have to run around shirtless. (Sorry, Ben. I know you don't like to take your shirt off in front of the camera, but you're gorgeous to look at.)

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Crash....great idea for a thread...and I think he would have done a remarkable job as Ben Hur...obviously anthying that has to do with seeing some skin I am in! I was having a similar conversation with Sybil recently. I think Ben would have been very hot as Michael Westen in Burn Notice. There are so many other roles that I would have loved to have seen Ben cast in. How we would have loved to see him in 300 in Gerard Butler's role....

I have been an old movie buff for yrs! I have always said he would have been perfect in sooo many of the older movies.Most of you are too young to remember the ones I would name' but here are a few. THe Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Ben of course as the ghostly sea captain. A 1940's movie with Clark gable called Honky Tonk, he is perfect for Gables role as con artist who falls in love with Lana Turner.There are so many movies I watch and picture him in , I couldn't list them all but then again I can see him doing almost any part.